{"title":"Asset pricing models in South Africa: A comparative of regression analysis and the Bayesian approach","authors":"Nitesha Dwarika","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000This study investigated the risk-return relationship using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), Carhart four-factor Model (C4FM) and Fama and French Multifactor Models (FFMMs): F3FM and F5FM. This study analyzed the JSE ALSI returns of the South African market, in relation to the risk factors constructed by the data of twenty-six emerging markets, over the sample period from October 2000 to October 2021. The methodology employed was a comparison of the conventional regression analysis and novel Bayesian approach. Regression analysis estimated by Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) is one of the foremost methods used in South Africa. However, such an approach does not take into account the properties of the price data, namely, the asymmetric, volatile and random nature. While the Newey-West adjustment is one way to assist in capturing autocorrelation and volatility, it fails to consider asymmetry. The Bayesian approach accounts for all the aforementioned properties, overcoming the fundamental flaws of regression analysis. The additional model diagnostics highlighted in this study improved the Bayesian approach' robustness. The risk factors of the FFMMs estimated by regression analysis, with and without the Newey-West adjustment, were insignificant, whereas the Bayesian test results were significant. This finding clearly highlighted that model choice impacts the significance of parameter estimation and the financial decisions of investors, firms and policymakers. Jensen's alpha revealed CAPM to be optimal but none of the asset pricing models fully captured the risk premia. Thus, returns should be investigated with different risk measures for future research purposes.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115900103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Capital market and public health emergencies in Chinese sports industry based on a market model","authors":"Xinying Zhang, Chuanjun Zhao, Xianwei Zhou, Xiaojun Wu, Ying Li, Meiling Wu","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023007","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000\u0000The public health emergencies have had a significant impact on the world economy, and the sports industry has been no exception. This study employed StataMP-64 software and event study methodologies to examine the reaction of the Chinese sports industry's capital markets to the outbreak of public health emergencies. The event study method, which is becoming increasingly popular in the field of economics and management, is well-suited for evaluating the impact of specific events on stock returns in the capital market. This method has also garnered significant interest in the sports industry. In this study, the expected return is calculated using the classical market model, and the cumulative abnormal return and average cumulative abnormal return were calculated for each sports company during the period of the Wuhan \"city closure\" event and the inflection point event. The Wilcoxon non-parametric test has been used to examine the significance of the abnormal return. The results indicate that the event study method, applied to a procedural market model, is effective in analyzing the capital market's response to the public health emergencies outbreak in the Chinese sports industry.\u0000\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133849980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Man-Fai Leung, Abdullah Jawaid, Sai-Wang Ip, Chun-Hei Kwok, Shing Yan
{"title":"A portfolio recommendation system based on machine learning and big data analytics","authors":"Man-Fai Leung, Abdullah Jawaid, Sai-Wang Ip, Chun-Hei Kwok, Shing Yan","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023009","url":null,"abstract":"This research paper introduces a portfolio recommendation system that utilizes machine learning and big data analytics to offer a profitable stock portfolio and stock analytics via a web application. The system's effectiveness was evaluated through backtesting and user evaluation studies, which consisted of two parts: user evaluation and performance evaluation. The findings indicate that the development of a machine learning-based portfolio recommendation system and big data analytics can effectively meet the expectations of the majority of users and enhance users' financial knowledge. This study contributes to the growing body of research on utilizing advanced technologies for portfolio recommendation and highlights the potential of machine learning and big data analytics in the financial industry.","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116627111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Option pricing using deep learning approach based on LSTM-GRU neural networks: Case of London stock exchange","authors":"Habib Zouaoui, Meryem-Nadjat Naas","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This study is a review of literature on machine learning to examine the potential of deep learning (DL) techniques in improving the accuracy of option pricing models versus the Black-Scholes model and capturingcomplex features in financial data.\u0000\u0000Neural networks and other machine learning models have been proposed for option pricing and have improved accuracy compared withtraditional models. However, such use of machine learning also presents practical challenges such as data availability and quality, computational resources, model selection and validation, interpretability and overfitting. This study discusses several of these challenges and highlights the need for careful evaluation and validation of machine learning models in London option pricing during the Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. Moreover, to investigate the quality of the models used, we compare the performances of these algorithms in option pricing through the application of significance statistical tests.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124979195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Online public opinion and asset prices: a literature review","authors":"Yaya Su, Noc Business, Y. Qu, Yuxuan Kang","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2021004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2021004","url":null,"abstract":"We review the research work undertaken to explore how online public opinion information through social media and news media affects asset prices. First, it summarizes the measurement of online public opinion from three aspects: data source of online public opinion, textual sentiment analysis, and measurement of online public opinion index. Second, it puts forward the related theoretical basis of the research on online public opinion and asset price such as the noise trading theory, arbitrage limitation demonstrations, limited attention assumption and divergence models, etc. Third, it summarizes the three transmission channels through which online public opinion affects asset prices: investor attention, investor perceptions, and investor sentiment. Last, it looks deeply into the area and classifies the empirical literature according to various sources of online public opinion chosen by the researcher. Therefore, this exploratory work contributes to the existing literature by introducing the first systematic review.","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130606796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis Factors Affecting Egyptian Inflation Based on Machine Learning Algorithms","authors":"Mohamed F. Abd El-Aal","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023017","url":null,"abstract":"Given that inflation is one of the most important problems facing the Egyptian economy, determining the factors affecting it is very important. Thus, we aim to use machine learning algorithms like Support vector machine (SVM), K-nearest neighbor (KNN), Random Forest (R.F.), Neural Network (ANN), Gradient boosting (G.B.) and decision tree (D.T.) to determine the accurate algorithm and analyze the factors affecting on Egypt inflation. The study found that the G.B. algorithm is the most accurate among the used algorithms and showed that The major significant variables determining inflation in Egypt are the exchange rate (30.5%), gross fixed formation (24.5%) and government expenditure (12.3%). We also found a positive relationship between the inflation rate and government expenditure, money supply, gross domestic product (GDP) growth, gross fixed formation, foreign direct investment, GDP per capita and exchange rate. Furthermore, there is a negative relationship between the inflation rate, household expenditure and the external trade balance.","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130780659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political-obsessed environment and investor sentiments: pricing liquidity through the microblogging behavioral perspective","authors":"Jawad Saleemi","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2023012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2023012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Pakistan's political instability has pushed its economic system to the brink of collapse. Considering this political turmoil, this study addresses the behavior of liquidity providers against microblogging-opinionated information. The behavioral perspective was quantified through multiple linear regressions, the Bayesian theorem, and the vector error correction technique. Before this political crisis, sentiment indicators were linked to the liquidity-conditional cost for the same trading session. In the political uncertainty environment, pessimistic opinions were the sole concern of the liquidity providers during the same trading session. The liquidity facilitator was observed to price the liquidity in light of pessimistic sentiments. The Bayesian theorem suggested a higher posterior probability for the occurrence of the liquidity-facilitating cost in response to the pessimistic sentiments. Nevertheless, the past time series changes for the sentiment indicators were irrelevant in determining changes in cost-based liquidity for the next trading session.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130913148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining stylized facts and trends of FTSE/JSE TOP40: a parametric and Non-Parametric approach","authors":"Katleho Makatjane, Ntebogang D Moroke","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2022015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2022015","url":null,"abstract":"It is critical in risk and portfolio management to identify groups or classes of financial returns. Portfolio diversification is one of the first decisions made during the portfolio construction phase, and it entails allocating assets among various asset class groups to maximize the risk/reward trade-off. Therefore, this research provides a detailed examination of empirical analysis concerning the characterization of financial markets. In this study, we use parametric and non-parametric approaches to look at stylized facts and patterns of the FTSE/JSE Top40, which comprises the top 40 holdings companies in the South African financial market. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time a model of this type has been used to create a map that characterizes this index. Our findings indicated that the majority of the properties of the data were valid including among others, clustering volatility, monthly seasonal effects and significant autocorrelation (or serial correlation) on logarithmic returns. Moreover, we found that intra-week trend effects exist, whereas the weekend effect has practically vanished in the FTSE/JSE Top40. With regard to the transition probabilities of the MS(2)-GJR-GARCH (1,1) model, the FTSE/JSE Top40 index had a 98.8% chance of exhibiting long memory, while the volatility had a 99.6% chance of exhibiting long memory.","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128367126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi-indicator comprehensive evaluation: reflection on methodology","authors":"Dong Qiu, Tingyi Liu","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2021016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2021016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The number and field of researches on the application of Multi-Indicator Comprehensive Evaluation (MICE) are increasing. It is important to reflect on the understanding of the MICE method systematically and the issues implied behind it. This paper compares the core concepts and methodological elements of the three papers that systematically study the MICE method. It is found that the views of the three papers on the core issue are consistent and mutually supportive, but there are differences in the step division and sequence of the evaluation content. In addition, this paper considers the historical status of the MICE and holds that the key to solving the quality of weight lies in the \"equivalent conversion\" problem in the MICE. Taking the Human Development Index as an example, this paper illustrates the absoluteness of the \"equivalent conversion\" relationship. In addition, there are multiple processing methods for the MICE from the spatial dimension and multiple evaluation results accordingly, therefore, the results of the MICE need to be used carefully. Finally, based on the systematic summary and reflection of the MICE method, three suggestions are given for the application of the MICE method.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129078052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new hybrid form of the skew-t distribution: estimation methods comparison via Monte Carlo simulation and GARCH model application","authors":"O. Adubisi, Ahmed Abdulkadir, C. Adubisi","doi":"10.3934/dsfe.2022003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3934/dsfe.2022003","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 In this work, estimating the exponentiated half logistic skew-t model parameters using some classical estimation procedures is considered. The finite sample performance of the EHLST parameter estimates is examined through extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The ordering performance of the six criterions was based on the partial and overall ranks of the estimation procedures for all parameter combinations. The criterions performance ordering from finest to poorest, using the overall ranks is maximum likelihood, maximum product of spacing, Anderson-Darling, Cramer-von Mises, least squares and weighted least squares estimators for all the parameter combinations. The simulation results confirm the dominance of the maximum likelihood estimation method over other methods with the least overall rank but shows that the maximum product of spacing is most advantageous when the sample size is 200. More so, the EHLST model efficacy is demonstrated through its application on Nigeria inflation rates dataset using the maximum likelihood and maximum product of spacing estimation procedures. Furthermore, the volatility modeling of the Nigeria inflation log-returns using the GARCH-type models with the EHLST innovation density relative to ten commonly used innovation densities validates the superiority of the GARCH (1, 1) and GJRGARCH (1, 1) models with EHLST innovation density in both in-sample and out-samples performance over other models.\u0000","PeriodicalId":290300,"journal":{"name":"Data Science in Finance and Economics","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129330265","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}